Before setting off, Yin Lian made sufficient preparations.
Traveling through time has become a normal thing for her, and there is nothing special to prepare for. However, this trip had corresponding mission objectives, so Yin Lian generally made a lot of preparations to facilitate the completion of the mission.
She spent three days in Xia Kingdom and collected a large amount of information from the same era. The most core part is of course the contemporary authors who are worthy of Yin Lian's "cheating manuscripts". She downloaded the original works of all famous historical authors from similar or earlier times, in order to facilitate comparison. After all, it is a parallel space, and no one can guarantee whether there will be significant differences between the same work in the two worlds.
Of course, if the difference is not big, she can also pretend that it is the original manuscript and sell it at auction - after all, it is very common for the author to revise the manuscript. If there is a first edition, it may be more valuable because of the research in it. value.
In addition to the works themselves, Yin Lian also researched and collected the life experiences and main living areas of each author, and then prioritized them according to their own influence.
Yin Lian has already thought about the method of cheating.
Run a newspaper, open a publishing house, publish and distribute for them. If it is a publishing house, taking away a manuscript is the most natural thing. Yin Lian checked it out and found that there was no such thing as a copy machine in Xia State at that time. In other words, although the concept was in place, there was still far from a finished machine that could be put into use, and the author himself definitely had no access to it. This gave Giving her plenty of opportunities to operate.
Moreover, judging from the current situation and the history of copyright improvement at that time, Yin Lian can confirm that the copyright protection at that time was far from maintaining the original manuscript. It was normal for publishers to retain or even destroy the original manuscript. Although what was given to the publisher was the final handwritten draft and not a draft in the creative process, it did not have a great impact on Yin Lian.
No matter what kind of manuscript, it is essentially a manuscript that will be recognized by future generations.
After Yin Lian was fully prepared, he decided to go to the era of gray masks.
She already had a well-prepared all-in-one papermaking and printing machine on hand, but she still prepared a printing technology document that was slightly ahead of the times. In addition, she collected a large number of various factory technologies that could be put into production at that time, so that if something unexpected happened, she could accumulate original capital or connections in other ways.
Of course, security protection is also needed, so she also ordered several security robots. Direct purchase is much more expensive than renting. Fortunately, bodyguards do not require too much social interaction with people. Even if they socialize, they can be silent and alert, so they do not require high emotional intelligence, which can save part of the installation price.
Returning to the capital of Xia Kingdom more than five hundred years ago, Yin Lian did not take direct action. Instead, he first combined magic and modern makeup to create many hideous flesh-colored scars on his face and wrists.
Then cover it up with clothing, gloves and a hat veil.
This is not to blame for her caution. As long as this era is too chaotic, her appearance may not be an advantage in this environment, especially since she lacks a background in this era and is too lazy to rely on her appearance to gain status. This era was originally a scene of the last days. Although there was no invasion by the Eight-Power Allied Forces - because the internal fighting in the other two continents was more fierce, there were many warlords, and the style of the big warlords was similar to that of bandits. Most of these warlords are from nobles, and a few are emerging nobles from big bourgeoisie. Each of them regards themselves as the emperor of the country - compared with the Republic of China, this is more like the Three Kingdoms' struggle for hegemony in the industrial era. If Yin Lian maintains his status, Xiang, she has the potential to be Diao Chan.
But her target is not the beauty of troubled times, but the big capitalist.
In fact, if you only use magic, you can achieve a very good camouflage effect. But in an era without magic, Yin Lian didn't want to rely too much on this limited ability, so she only briefly used some physical magic changes, but had no intention of using it for disguise all the time.
Before that, she had well written a plot suitable for the current stage, and even practiced her poor acting skills a little, which at least meant that in this performance, even a big spy leader like Li Laixi would be difficult to see through. own disguise.
She took the robot bodyguard with her, pretended to be coming down from the train station, and then returned to the hotel where she and Yin Changsheng had stayed. She didn't know if Li Laixi would be suspicious of their sudden news, or if he was still monitoring and inquiring about their whereabouts, but if he was still there, she would just use her "new makeup" to shock the other party - any man would look at it When seeing such a serious accident on a young girl, one can't help but feel pity, and then relax a little bit of suspicion and vigilance towards the other person. After all, no one would take advantage of such a serious injury.
However, the legendary Li Laixi was unusually ruthless, so Yin Lian still had some backup options.
Just because Yin Lian wore scary makeup didn't mean that everyone needed to see her and be afraid of her. Fortunately, she is a girl, and in this era, it is not very strange for women to cover their faces. Although more and more people choose not to do that, there are still many people who choose to continue to do so for various reasons that have nothing to do with tradition. .
During the time she was learning to write, she also learned how to lay out and perfect a story. So from the beginning, she established a personality for herself and planned to act strictly according to this personality.
In order to fit the character, when she appeared at the inn, she acted very silent and gloomy. There was a strong sense of heaviness in her tone, which made people feel that her mood was very low, which was in sharp contrast to before.
Because of her performance, the innkeeper didn't even realize that she was the conspicuous little girl who appeared before. It wasn't until she wrote down her previously registered pseudonym Zeng Erya in the registration book that the innkeeper looked at her in shock. , his attitude suddenly became much more enthusiastic, and he said: "It's Miss Zeng. Your brother didn't come with you this time? Your sudden departure last time shocked me, for fear that something would happen to you."
Yin Lian listened, but her voice was weak and even a little hoarse: "Something happened to my father at that time. We were in a hurry to go back, so we didn't come to pay. I will stay longer this time, but the room fee It’s better to pay it in advance so that if anything happens, you won’t suffer a loss, boss.”
Her voice sounded very different from last time, so the boss was stunned for a moment and asked, "What is Miss Zeng doing here this time?"
Yin Lian replied: "Business." But without waiting for the boss to ask further questions, Yin Lian said, "Sorry, I am really tired from traveling all the way. Can you arrange a few houses first so that my family and I can take a rest?" ."
The word "family" here refers to servants. However, due to the influence of various advanced ideological trends at home and abroad at this time, some wealthy businessmen who are not nobles will call their servants "family" in order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.
This is actually a form of self-deception. After two or three hundred years, everyone will know that servants are inevitable. Even more than five hundred years later, in the Xia Kingdom, ordinary people replaced their servants with robots, while the truly wealthy families still hired housekeepers and servants.
In an era when food and clothing could not be guaranteed, powerful people hired or used others for labor. But when living standards reach a certain level, servicing others becomes a status symbol, and what the host gets is a sense of spiritual satisfaction.
As long as mankind has vanity, servants will never disappear. However, at this time, the newly emerging trend of democratic thought always made many egalitarians have some unrealistic expectations and overly ideal illusions about democracy.
The boss glanced at the three servants beside Yin Lian—one of them, a man and a woman, looked to be of mixed Chinese and Western descent, and the remaining one was a pure white man. All three of them looked quite tall, which made them look different. Although Yin Lian is short, she is extremely thin and petite.
Their identities also fit in with the persona Yin Lian had established for himself before.
As expected, the boss had no doubts. He just swallowed in front of the muscles on the three people's bodies and arranged the guest rooms for them himself.
But after leaving their room, he went downstairs, pulled a guy to the corner, and told him to notify the people in the Intelligence Bureau.
Yin Lian's mental power could sense all of this, but she pretended to find nothing. She just took off her hat, took out some paper information and started making future plans while waiting for the follow-up.
Since he plans to start making a living here, it is inevitable to face Li Laixi. This royal illegitimate son who had great influence in the entire capital and even the entire Xia Kingdom was a wall that Yin Lian could not get around. If it is not handled well, he will become Yin Lian's biggest obstacle and crisis, but on the contrary, if it is handled well, he will be an extremely valuable opportunity for Yin Lian.
Li Laixi will still be very popular in the future. If a girl (or boy) from Xia Kingdom came to this era, the love-minded girl might have already pounced on her. Yin Lian has seen the black and white photos left by Li Laixi, and they can be said to be quite handsome. If you have a brain and care about your life, you will probably try your best to avoid him.
But Yin Lian is not any of them. She is not a "girl", she is strong. She has no fear of Li Laixi and hopes to seek cooperation.
But surprisingly, Li Laixi or his men did not appear soon after. In fact, when the guy came back, no one showed up after him.
Until the next day when Yin Lian went out with his bodyguards and inquired about a lot of things, no one from the Secret Service came to bother Yin Lian. Yin Lian spent nearly 24 hours waiting before finally confirming that she probably underestimated Li Laixi's busyness and overestimated her own importance and deliberateness.
But it wasn't until the next night that she heard a knock on the door and said, "The police are here to check." She realized that the test had finally come.
